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Trust: A Key Ingredient to a Lasting Marriage

Trusting your partner is one of the most important ingredients of marriage. It is like strong glue that holds a couple together despite great adversities. Aside from love, trust is one of the most important foundations of a successful marriage. The key to creating a relationship built on trust is to continuously make an effort everyday to show respect, love ...

Trump’s Offer to Buy Site of Proposed Mosque Denied

Donald Trump, the great peacemaker or mega-publicity hound?No stranger to a big gamble and chasing down a little free press, the Donald has offered to buy out the main owner of the site of the proposed Islamic Center that is being developed two blocks from Ground Zero.The offer, however, fell flat.Read More: @ nbcnewyork.comTags: Donald Trump, offer to buy mosque site denied, Trump to ...

TriBeCa Gallery Showcases Muslims Who Saved Jews During World War II

In the wake of the controversy over the so-called “Ground Zero mosque,” a TriBeCa gallery is showcasing photos of Albanian Muslims who risked their lives to save Jews during World War II.The 30 portraits at Soho Photo Gallery on White Street, accompanied by their subjects’ stories, speak powerfully to the quiet heroism of Muslims who hid more than 2,000 Jews ...

Trees Felled by Sandy Given New Meaning on Tu B’Shvat

In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, devastation was everywhere. Roads were closed and power lines brought down by trees uprooted by the storm. While driving his children to school each morning in Morristown, N.J., Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Yitzchok Moully says he would look at the fallen trees, hoping that “some industrious craftsman or carpenter would create something beautiful and spiritually meaningful ...

Transgender Jews may be nothing new

There is always that question of what the shtetl Jews who populate the stories of writers like Sholom Aleichem might think about a transgender folk-punk band named Schmekel, which will be appearing October 29 at the Nehirim Queer Shabbaton, at the JCC in Manhattan.Bands like Schmekel, which uses Yiddish as an alternative culture to help bulk up their Jewish identities, ...

‘Tram ticket? We don’t serve women here’

Jerusalem’s light rail is expected to reach its final destination this month after endless delays and wide public criticism. But judging from what happened to L., an ultra-Orthodox woman, it may not serve everyone.Last month, the 26-year-old woman took a stroll with her husband on Yaakov Meir Street in the haredi neighborhood of Geula. They spotted two stands selling light ...

Traffic jams begin as thousands of Israelis prepare for Passover feast

Traffic jams were reported throughout Israel on Monday, in the first sign of what has become an annual nationwide deadlock ahead of the Passover dinner.Army Radio reported congestion along the coastal highway from the Netanya area to the Olga interchange over a fire that erupted nearby, while the old Tel Aviv-Haifa highway was reportedly jammed from Hasharon junction to Horoeh ...

Tradition Today: Halacha and history

The Tu Bishvat celebrations are over. Trees have been planted, fruit has been eaten, and a certain amount of environmental consciousness has entered our minds, though probably not enough. None of that, of course, has anything to do with the original meaning of Tu Bishvat as found in the Mishna: “The New Year of the Trees is on the first ...

Tradition Today: But who’s Counting?

The Torah does not permit us to count persons. That is a great lesson: people are not numbers. They are individual souls created in God’s image. We have learned all too tragically what happens when people cease to be human and become nothing but numbers. But the Torah does permit – even mandates – counting days: “And from the day ...

Town is Ready For Chelsea Clinton’s Wedding

Never mind that details about Chelsea Clinton’s wedding are being held as closely as state secrets. The postcard-pretty New York town of Rhinebeck is ready. Signs congratulating the 30-year-old former first daughter are posted on shop windows in the Hudson Valley town. Residents are talking to TV crews, and officials are bracing for crowds.Read More: @ wcbs880.comReaders found more information by ...

Toulouse School Target of Anti-Semitic Calls, Hate Mail

The French Jewish school where three children and a teacher were murdered this month has received a wave of anti-Semitic hate mail and calls, the local prosecutor said Wednesday.Michel Valet said he had received a complaint from the school and had ordered a police investigation to discover the “origin of these calls and letters and the identities of those behind ...

Tosher Rebbe Will Appear In Shul For The First Time Since He Left The Hospital

Toshe Chasidim In Canada Are awaiting with excitement the appearence of the Rebbe, who will apear in shul today for the first time since he left the hospital where he was in critical condition for a few weeks.“Yidden all around the world were mispallel for this great tzadik, Hashem listend to them and Boruch Hashem its a miracle that the ...